Everywhere we look we find information on ways to lose weight, but for a refreshing perspective let’s look at how to keep our excess weight and maintain that painful relationship we have with food.
Here’s How to Stay Overweight:
- Talk about your excess weight as much as possible. Mention how hard you try to change your eating and exercising habits, and don’t forget to point out flaws in your body others might not have noticed. This way you can get that much needed attention even if it’s negative.
- Think about food constantly: What should I eat? When can I eat next? How much do I eat? And, how will that affect my body? Of course, focusing full attention on food doesn’t leave much energy for thinking about other more creative pursuits like your dreams.
- Devote enormous amounts of time on food. Busy your day with hundreds of food activities: counting calories, weighing food, reading labels, shopping for specialty foods and devising healthy ways to cook. This allows little time to do anything enjoyable.
- Look for an easy fix, a miracle cure… maybe a pill, a little surgery, the latest exercise or a miraculous new diet. By looking for a fix outside you, the real cure stays safely hidden.
- Depend on food for emotional help. Use food for comfort, as a reward, to relieve boredom, to express anger or as a punishment. This is an excellent method for literally stuffing down life’s little situations.
- Constantly compare your body with others. This is a wonderful way to remind yourself that who you are will never be good enough no matter what you weigh.
These 6 approaches not only ensure that we stay overweight and maintain our painful relationship with food but will keep us exhausted. There is no telling how happy we could be or what we could achieve if we weren’t focused on food.
To read more about weight issues, look at these articles by Vickie Champion: Use Meditation to Improve Your Relationship With Food, Is Losing Weight Becoming Too Much of an Uphill Battle and Playing Your Part to End Your Child’s Problem With Food.
It’s easy to put your dreams on the back burner during these hard times. Maybe you’ve used the excuse that you need to figure out how to pay the bills this month, get a job or keep the job you have.
But have you ever considered that part of the reason we’re having this economic crisis in the first place is because millions of us have put our dreams on the back burner?
I’ve got a NEW quiz on my website, Are You Ready to Get Your Dreams. See how you score!
Maybe you’ve heard how a life coach can help you achieve your goals. Or you might know someone who has used a life coach to help them through troubled times. It’s great there are life coaches to help those who need it, but you’re NOT one of them. You are HAPPY with the way things are.
Here are a Few of the Many Advantages of NOT Hiring a Life Coach-
- You can AVOID doing something about your problems, thinking day after day, “Tomorrow will be better.” Lately, I think most people who have money issues are doing this.
- You can continue believing sleepless nights, fighting with your spouse, family and friends, feeling guilty and being afraid all the time are NORMAL.
- You can treat your friends to long CONVERSATIONS about your problems.
- You can keep yourself USEFUL by putting out one fire after another.
- You can appear SELF-RELIANT by trying to break your old patterns and solve problems with no one else’s help.
- You can continue to ENVY the lives of others.
- You can SAVE money! And you can take satisfaction in this, even if does mean sacrificing a quality of life and spending several stressful years of hard work.
If these advantages sound appealing, DO NOT hire a life coach. There’s a good chance, they will ruin this for you. A good life coach has a tendency to help you become self-aware, increase your self-respect, end your self-sacrifice, give you self-confidence and build your self-esteem.
If these advantages don’t appeal to you, visit Vickie’s Individual Coaching section on her website.
Believe it or not there are conditions that actually activate our intuition and make it easier to hear intuitive answers.
Are you ready to awaken your intuition? Here are 9 ways:
1 Taking a Shower -
There’s something about warm water beating on your body that releases those intuitive insights.
2 Commuting – 
Whether we travel by plane, train or automobile, the commute often gives enough quiet, reflective time to recognize intuitive answers.
3 Brainstorming -
When we bounce ideas around with other people and allow ourselves to open to new possibilities our intuition slips in perfect ideas.
4 Practicing Yoga -
Yoga slows us down and switches our mindset into a non-reactionary mode, which allows our intuition to surface.
5 Playing or Listening to Music -
Music calms our nerves, changes our mood and gives us amazing “aha” moments.
6 Getting Physical -
Any form of physical activity can connect us with our intuition, especially:
- Repetitive exercise, like running or riding a bike.
- Being in nature, like gardening or hiking.
7 Decluttering -
Clearing out your physical space also helps clear out your head space, leaving room for those intuitive ideas.
8 Praying -
Whenever we ask, we will receive. Intuition is another definition for God’s voice.
9 Sitting in Silence and Doing Nothing -
Whether it’s staring out the window or sitting on the front porch listening to the birds, somehow it allows our intuition to awaken.
Share with us. What awakens your intuition?
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